Yes, in truth, I would expect the vehicle would have to be shown to be unroadworthy for this to actually be likely.
Or if you are with Admiral and the other party skids on bald tyres where they don’t give a stuff and blame you.
Wife left the internal light on in the car overnight. Flat battery. The magic car starter battery has finally been put to use!
Did it work? I was given one a while back, but am a bit wary of them.
Yeah
What tablets should one consume in order to become more angry/impatient?
Might not work on fucking stupidly sized engines
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Haha, that’s both my cars out. I have used one to jump start the other in the past, lol.
It does strike me that using a small battery to jump start your car is a more elegant solution than keeping a second car for the purpose.
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Fxt
Does up to 2.5l apparently
There is every possibility that Pete might not want a more elegant solution…
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Perhaps the law has changed, or perhaps insurers now accept wider liabilities than they once did… however in 1999 I was stopped on the M2 travelling at 125mph in a Mondeo estate…
The Mondeo belonged to my then-employer, whose car fleet was tax-exempt due to being Crown property.
This tax exemption had the unfortunate consequence of causing the fleet manager to forget their ageing fleet needed MOT’ing.
I was naturally enough handed a Producer on the hard-shoulder, which I later sheepishly took to Fleet Management to get the rest of the dox. At which point - blind panic on their part. Which surprised me.
Turned-out (which I didn’t know at the time), that it doesn’t matter who owns a vehicle - the person driving it is responsible for all aspects of its road legality.
A month later I appeared at Maidstone CC and was charged with speeding and driving while uninsured, as the lack of MOT invalidated the insurance.
YMMV, mine didn’t.
Did you actually get found guilty, though? (I guess you did based on your post). In which case, I think you were hard done by.
Unfortunately the police are often not very good on what the actual law is. Perhaps surprisingly, quite often nor are magistrates (which is why they have legal advisors).
Certainly, if the car can be shown to be roadworthy, I would be arguing that in court if it ever came to it.
I did, but got a pretty light sentence - 4 week ban and £200 fine. I suspect the funny-handshake brigade had intervened lest I should have gone public… No disciplinary consequences either.
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To be fair 125 would get at least that sentence!
Yep, I felt I got off pretty lightly.
Only moment of levity was turning-up at Rotherhithe nick and explaining why I couldn’t provide dox - and the desk sergeant calling his colleagues out from the back room to have a good laugh at the clusterfuck, not least “didn’t know you get one of those shitboxes moving that fast!” - honestly the bastards were in stitches! 
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Can Mondeos actually do over 120mph? 
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That was the basis of their pisstaking.
It was downhill…